The Train Rolls On

• Movies
• 1971-11-01
• FR
• Released
• 0h 32m
• FR
• Documentary

• 6.3
• 7

Production

Societe pour le Lancement des Oeuvres Nouvelles (SLON)

Storyline

This half-hour documentary by Chris Marker explores Aleksandr Medvedkin’s 1930s “Cine-Train,” a mobile film studio equipped with cameras, editing rooms, animation stations, and a laboratory. Traveling across the Soviet countryside, the train’s crew documented agricultural and industrial life—from Ukrainian harvests to southern steelworks—while living and working in cramped shared quarters.